Motivational Quotes

Change

Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

- A Course In Miracles

Best Quotes about Change

It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

Davis, William B.

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

Robbins, Anthony

For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Covey, Stephen R.

Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Alinsky, Saul

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As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

19.

You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

21.

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

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Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

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People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

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To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

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You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

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Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

30.

For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

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Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

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Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

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It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

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We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

Naisbitt, John

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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

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The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether any business will survive at all in the ;face of social change.

Mcginley, Laurence J.

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One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

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Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

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Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

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Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Branden, Nathaniel

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Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

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The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.

Abernathy

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If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne

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The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

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The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

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It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?